kaunti lang ang pinagpapasalamat natin sa mga amerikano lately dahil sa mga kagaguhan ng foreign policy ni dubya and company. but this is one time na ok ang mga kano. this euro-american mission will last for four years (maybe more). in that time, it will bring discoveries that will make us richer as a species. our children will dream and wonder again and perhaps look to a future that is beyond war and poverty and all that crap.

i remember the very first machine problem given to me by my instructor… it was a simulation of a falling ball. gumawa raw ako ng program that will compute the rate of acceleration ng isang bumabagsak na bola. the height of the drop is to be entered by the user. your program must be able to give the rate of acceleration at any point of the ball’s drop that is also given by the user. in your computation, please use this “so and so i forgot oh it was so long time ago” branch of integral calculus that makes use of “so and so i forgot oh it was so long time ago” fibonacci series. man, i was hooked.